The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-04-30

! hsh'' ana run ground squirrels to
their holes and dig angelica and kill
snakes and rock hornets nests and
lisht yailer-jackets ! am going with
him. I'm tired Of playing man all
the year long without "a recess. II is
sort Of hypocyitical life. | envy
the children. The scriptures say
"unless ye be as one Of these little
ones, ye Shall not get to heaven. So
1t is time to begin, and therefore I'm,
going a fishing. That's good Script
ual occupation anyhow, forone of the
disciples said, 81 go q fishing,n and
the other replied, 81 90 with thee
also They were just human like
the rest Of Us. | wonder if they had
any hooks and poles like W. have.
GvIhg Il fishing and coming rom
fishing are two things, very different
things. They are. no kin. We fix
up our hooks and lines and split
bullets and rob every empty bottle
and jug OF its cork, and dig the back
yard all to pieces for bait, and make
great preparations, and imagine the
iish are just waiting for us, and we
can see the pole bending with big
one darting around, and that's pretty
much all there is Of it--imagiuation
But it is the most hopeful thing in
the world. We swear off and swear
off, but in 8 week or so we want to
try it again. We most always hang
one or two, and sometimes get q big
one Oh the edge of the banli--and he
gets aWay. Right there the dictionary
is at fault, for there is no word in it
that fits the case-that expresses the
ineXpressible gOneness of the occa-
sion. 1t makes a fellel feel sic, at
the stomach.
But | have gotten to be reconciled
to most anything now and don't take
on like | used to, My business now
is to comfort others and help them to
be happy-and | believe that pays
best after ali, Blessed is he who ex-
poets little, for he shall not be disap-
pointed.
"Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long,
| don't say that, but Poet Young
said it as his solemn night thoughts.
And then Goldsmith copied and used
it in his ballad Of the Hermit. But
Sidney Smith was of u lively turn Of
mind, and said:
"Man wants but little here below.
AS beef, veal, mutton, pork and
venison show
And next came John Quincy Adj
ans, who set down on it and wrote:
"NIan wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.
lis not with me exactly so,
Tho It's so in the song
| want good deal. | want more
than | get, but I don't want it bad
enough to make a hog of myself nor
break the tenth commandment. ]
always admired the happy way in
which Daniel Webster used some
lines from Dryden when he said he
was thankful that "if he could not
raise "a mortal to the skies he had
no desire "to bring an angel down.
But still | love to go Il fishing,
whether catch them or not. 1t is "A
good time to ruminate. The bust
ness is so typical of life. Its hopes
and disappointments. Happiness Is
Just ahead of US all we think, and we
lay our plans and fix our hooks and
dig our bait and drop our line in some
inviting hole and by and By the hook
yets hung under root and we worry
over it awhile and pull and the line
breaks. Or perhaps we hang some
thing that bites slow and cautious
and we haul up little dirty oid
terrapin. Or again We hang lively
fellow and he runs round and round
and we brace ourseif for 4 trout ana
haul up slickery squirm'ng old eel.
But nevertheless, | am going fish
ing. Dill N"F'
--a---7------'
A drunken old chap riding home
from Princeton, Ky, fell from his
horse while crossing muddy marsh,
and dropping oifto sleep he remained
there till morning. When he awoke
he found that one-half Of his bald
head was plastered with mud. Two
weeks later fine growth of young
hair appeared on that side OF his
head. On st. Valentines day he re-
appeared in town with the hair three
|, a II